skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filecoin? Not sure if that's considered a "smart contract" since it's not eth-based.
Who is the current occupant of the site? A quick search says Yahoo! and Coinbase. And maybe previously WeWork, temporarily leasing from Meta?
100% probability that there will be a test with a name along those lines if I ever do end up actually writing tests
Yes but remember we’re in a tech bubble and the average person still doesn’t know what ChatGPT is.
Back when I was very young, with my family, cousins, all over at my grandparents place, having lots of fun.

Here in Australia, Christmas is in our summer, so we used to have watermelon seed wars where everyone runs around the house eating watermelon as fast as possible to build up a mouthful of seeds to use as 'ammo' to machine gun spit at everyone else.

Was hilarious, and a very long time ago...
three days before xmas in 2022, my partner of 6 years threatened to kill me because i was scared to travel through an ice storm to her mom's house. while she was downstairs getting her pocket knife, i texted her best friend for help and got her to call her and she talked her down. the ice storm prevented any travel for 2 days; we still made it to her moms for xmas, but i was gone mentally for the next year and a half.

broke up with her in may this year; this is my first xmas all alone. all my friends and family moved out of state years ago, and i spent all my vacation days and sick days studying for a coding interview that i had last week for my dream job. i bombed it, partly because of anxiety, partly because ive been procedural programming for 8 years and suck at OOP principles, and partly because the PTSD makes it tough to study/concentrate around xmas.

anyway, im drinking a bottle of mccallan, out here alone with my two cats, and its still a better xmas than the last two years. apologies for trauma dumping, just tipsy i guess.

oh and i did get the oracle java 8 associate cert last night, so i got that going for me, which is nice.

edit:

best xmas memory was playing KOTOR 1 when it came out, while eating a big tub of dansk sugar cookies. that dantooine music was lovely
Apocalypse (written in Rust)
I hear ya. I've done some crazy things with `git reflog` (which I always pronounce git re-flog instead of ref-log) but it is not fun.

There's the usual cognitive shift, and in my case a bit of a best-practice shift I had to go through to get comfortable with `jj` -- specifically, keeping the repo directory pristine (and putting my temp output in a git-ignored dir, or outside the repo) because /everything/ is tracked. Flip side being, I've forgotten to `git add` new files at least a few times a year, and now that won't be an issue.

But yeah, can highly recommend, and I'm excited to start to jump between multiple open branches^Wbookmarks at will and learn more about the intricacies of conflict management (and the original link is a good glimpse at that!)
I got a refurbished $800 3090 Ti FE earlier this year from microcenter. Sadly, they sold out and never restocked.
Yes, normally, I just ignore it, too. But today I feel a bit different. Sorry for the sentimental note.
I'm Jewish, so all my Christmas's growing up were kinda the same. Sleep in, have brunch, wander over to my neighbor's house around noon to see what kind of loot they got and help them play with their new toys. Sometimes we'd go out for Chinese food and a movie.

But my favorite was Christmas 1999. My girlfriend was out of town with her family and there was no reason to go home to mine, so I was alone (my roommates were with their families too). I decided to go to the movies in Emeryville.

I was going to see Galaxy Quest, Bicentennial Man, and Man on the Moon. The timing lined up perfectly to see all three. About 50 other people were there to do the same thing. When it was time to go in for the first movie, a staff member came out and told us that it would start about 30 minutes late. This would of course cause us to miss all the other movies.

About 30 people stepped forward at the same time and asked to speak to the manager. :). We explained to him that it would throw our whole schedule off. Since it was Christmas, he was kind enough to adjust the schedule so that we could all see all three movies.

That was a great day.
The figure in the title expressed in normal units

5.6 * 10^15 kilograms
> In comparison, a COTS quadcopter from DJI has a single backhaul from the airframe to the controller which does control, video, and and telemetry. And the video is impressively low-latency.

Your information is very out of date.

DJI sells their camera and video unit as a standalone part that you can put in your hobby drone. They're on the 3rd generation right now with the 4th coming out soon https://www.dji.com/o3-air-unit

If you want the DJI video feed, you just buy this unit for under $200 and put it in your drone. You get the same video technology as the COTS DJI unit and it integrates with your open-source controller.

> A Raspberry Pi running a decent RTOS would have orders of magnitude more processing capacity than an STM32 and could easily do the sort of multi-sensor fusion that the commercial systems do.

The STM processors have more than enough power to operate the drone.

I think you're missing the point of hobby drones and their controllers. They don't need or even want LTE, Starlink, or any of the other complications you mention. They just need to get up in the air and fly cheaply. The current products work well for that.

People have tried to build drones around Raspberry Pi gear but there's no advantage and a lot of additional cost, size, and weight for something that doesn't help at all.

I don't think people realize how powerful the top STM microcontrollers are these days.

> Happy to be corrected if there's new stuff that I'm not tracking, but the gap between the "art of the possible" and current practice seems large.

Most of what you posted has been tried in open source. It's just not really beneficial or interesting. You can cobble together an LTE drone if you want, but you can't legally fly it past line of sight anyway, so what's the point?

For what it's worth, hobby drones are miles ahead of the COTS drones when it comes to fast flying and control. The gear from DJI is great if you want to safely fly a camera up and hover around, but if you want a fast and challenging drone you basically have to DIY.
Merry Christmas, hackers!
Exactly what I was going for.

I'd rather make something funny (but also kind of interesting) than useful any day.
I want to thank you for this comment, I went out and grabbed a copy of Starfish and just finished it, what a ride!
I think the word some is doing most of the work there. There are other investments, too, you know. Diversifying means you sleep better.

(Also, Congress just showed that many Republicans won’t listen to Trump, or Musk, when they have other ideas.)
> Everything here is possible, the gap in implementation is that it’s a) expensive and b) non trivial engineering work.

The real issue is that it's just not interesting or worth it.

Why would you want to put LTE or Starlink on a drone? Flight time is around 30 minutes with current battery technology and you're not legally allowed to fly past line of sight anyway. Strapping a bunch of extra gear to a drone would cut flight times and add basically nothing to the experience.

These things aren't popular because they're not interesting to the people who build and fly drones.
Sorry about the crappy part, and congrats on the good stuff!

If it's any encouragement, I bombed a bunch of interviews during my 14 months of unemployment, but in January I'm returning to a position I loved.

Just saying that you shouldn't extrapolate too much from even a string of such things.

Hope your new year is awesome.
super cool post until i saw you used an llm to do this
I don't know if there's a way to ask with sensitivity, but I'm very interested to know why you stayed with her for 18 months after she threatened to kill you?

Sorry about the job, happens to the best of us. I think when it's the dream job you're that much more likely to bomb. I quit my dream job because it couldn't pay the bills and joined a place I thought I wouldn't last at, now in year 8 it turns out it was the dream job.
Leave a feature request issue! I might actually get around to it one beautiful day, and if we're very lucky that might even happen before the heat death of the universe.
What… uh, what sort of competitions are we talking about here, exactly?
To clarify, it benefits people who have previously borrowed.
Just watch out for the TS3 dock, a few of the USB ports on it are driven by a flaky chipset and should be avoided https://sebvance.medium.com/the-secret-caveats-of-the-caldig...
Author here. Happy to see this posted here. This is actually a series of blog posts:

1. Exploring LoRA — Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning and LoRA:
https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/exploring-lora-part-1-...

2. Exploring LoRA - Part 2: Analyzing LoRA through its Implementation on an MLP:
https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/exploring-lora-part-2-...

3. Intrinsic Dimension Part 1: How Learning in Large Models Is Driven by a Few Parameters and Its Impact on Fine-Tuning
https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/intrinsic-dimension-pa...

4. Intrinsic Dimension Part 2: Measuring the True Complexity of a Model via Random Subspace Training
https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/intrinsic-dimension-pa...

Hope you enjoy reading the other posts too. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas HN!

I’ve spent a lot of holidays alone over the last few years, and the HN community was a joy and a comfort every time.

I have the pleasure of spending holidays with family this year, and I’m trying to answer everyone’s questions about computer stuff, I invariably wind up referring to the great comments on HN as the best resource around.

I look forward to spending another year with all of you, and hope you all have a wonderful holiday.
What’s the model name?
> Said every forex / options / crypto course seller ever.

And they're correct on this. The only catch is that you don't need to buy their courses to know it.
I’ve always loved Christmas—I’m blessed that it’s all good memories. But having a little kid the past few years is a whole new level of magic.

Merry Christmas everyone. :)
Merry Christmas HN!

Hope everyone was able to slow down the pace a little, connect a little more with people we may have not caught up with recently and send/receive positive vibes. And happy new year.
how close is ϖ to e?
It's possible to use a DJI air unit for control, but most people prefer ExpressLRS to have a separate, longer range backhaul.

You want your control backhaul to have more range than your video feed anyway. If you go so far that the video starts to drop out, you can fly up higher to regain signal or flip the switch to safely drop the drone. You can also get GPS coordinates back to go find it.
Some of my favorite memories are the times I got video game systems. Most notibly the Sega Genesis and z scale trains I got in '94/'95/'96 (not sure the exact year, I was very young) and GameBoy Color in '99. I got a Xbox in '01, Xbox 360 in '05; but they didn't quite have the same "magic" that they had when I was young. Also as a young kid, watching the Rankin Bass stop motion movies on the days leading up to Christmas. Then talking with my brother and sister while we tried (failed) to sleep on Christmas Eve, watching more and more obscure Christmas cartoons and whatever else would come on TV late on Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning.

The best non-Christmas morning memories were just random times I was at family Christmas parties or gatherings. Seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins dancing talking having fun. As a kid, we used to have the parties at family homes, which was always fun and super memorable. Later we moved to a hall as the family got bigger and cousins started to bring their children, in laws, and friends. I can't really point out any particular memory as good; just all the time spent with family, not necessarily caring about what else was going on in the world at the time.
Using a gaming part is a poor comparison because gaming parts get higher speeds at lower prices by sacrificing longevity/energy efficiency. Clearly not the tradeoff Apple wants to make here.

Which isn’t anything against the SN850x, it’s a great fit for the intended use case it’s just many people assume there’s zero trade-offs involved beyond speed/price/capacity.

Apple is definitely raising storage prices to milk their customers and promote their iCloud cash cow, but it’s still worth considering when looking at ‘gaming’ parts in different situations.
Yes open source I will give the repo link on my twitter

x.com/Sayyidalijufri
Yeah, as I said, unnecessarily harsh. I also sometimes use marketing terms in my articles, and it’s not great.
Banded Iron Formation: the reunion tour.
I remember being given a large K'nex construction set as a toy at Christmas. I can still feel the visceral excitement of opening it up and looking at all the pieces, imagine what kind of things I'd build. I think the ferris wheel was my favorite.

A few years ago I was a bit down abd feeling like I'd never experience that kind of excitement and joy again. I've come to realize that now I'm older it's my job to create that same joy in others.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day and can find a way to create just a little moment of joy for someone else. Merry Christmas!
This readme is hilarious
I have been working on my own local inference software:

https://github.com/ryao/llama3.c/blob/master/run.c

First, CXL is useless as far as I am concerned.

The smaller LLM stuff in 1 and 2 is overrated. LLMs get plenty of things wrong and while the capabilities of small LLMs is increasing, they just are never as good as the larger LLMs in my testing. To give an example, between a small LLM that gets things right 20% of the time and a large one that gets things right 40% of the time, you are never going to want to deal the small one. Even when they improvement you will just find new things that they are not able to do well. At least, that is my experience.

Finally, the 75% savings figure in 3 is misleading. It applies to the context, not the LLMs themselves. It is very likely that nobody will use it, since it is a form of lossy compression that will ruin the ability of the LLM to repeat what is in its memory.
Thanks, and you're correct. I'm not very knowledgeable about keyboards, so I have no opinion about the switch technology per se.

I just know that I love the user aesthetics of the MX Keys.
> watching more and more obscure Christmas cartoons and whatever else would come on TV late on Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning.

Which ones if you're able to recall?
The historical former building stood unchanged until 5-10 years ago. There was a historical plaque on that building. It has been demolished and replaced by a nameless large 5-story office building.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38063927/
Did you get lost looking for the fantasy football subreddit or something?
More projections in a friendly pdf: “An Album of Map Projections”[1], the one above is on page 190.

For a more festive example see Berghaus star projection on page 156.

[1]: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1453/report.pdf (1989)
Do you work in the field? The author of the NYT piece has a physics doctorate from UChicago.
The new building has an elaborate plaque facing the sidewalk. It includes a railroad diagram of the many corporate spinoffs from Shockley Semi.
>Fuck you.

This will be my last reply in this thread (unless you apologize).

>These talking points went mainstream around the time Reagan got elected, around the time stuff like the Laffer curve got taken seriously.

Unfashionable isn't the same as wrong. It's telling that you're responding by saying "this is why you're unfashionable", rather than "this is why you're wrong".

>There is a way to run a participating democracy without a dystopian upwards wealth transfer, without unlimited political spending, without a catastrophic class segmentation that will lead to war. And we can do it all while opposing unbounded statism.

Are you aware that median wages in the US are some of the highest in the world?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=t...

Regarding class divisions and political spending, you might find these links interesting:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-doesnt-really-have-a-w...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...

I actually care more about global inequality than inequality within the USA. I would sooner support effective foreign aid than welfare.

But really -- It's not your specific policy ideas that disturb me, so much as your attitude. Your politics aren't the politics of benevolence or charity. They're the politics of envy, ego, bitterness, and resentment. That never ends well:

https://iea.org.uk/publications/socialism-the-failed-idea-th...

>It sounds like you’re doing well under the current system and trying to frame it like that makes a system good.

Currently surviving off of savings due to a chronic illness. I haven't had a good source of income for multiple years. My Medicaid coverage just renewed. I rent a room in an undesirable area. I don't have a car. I won't get a chance to see my family for Christmas.

But you know what? I am "doing well". That's because "doing well" is more about your mentality than your material resources.

I hope you get the support you need in that area. Merry Christmas.
When I was in Oxford, almost all the students went home for Christmas -- for the domestic students it was easy to travel, and most of the international students were wealthy enough that the cost didn't matter to them. I came from a middle class background and flying back to Canada would have been a significant cost (especially since my scholarship came with a living allowance which was only paid while I was in the UK) so I stayed in Oxford.

My third year in college, we had a new Warden (head of college) and while he, like all the other academic staff, generally vacated the college over Christmas, he felt obliged to offer Christmas hospitality.

So he sent out an email to the entire student population: "Any students in college over Christmas are welcome to come to the Warden's Lodge for afternoon tea at 3pm on Christmas Day." -- and as I was the only student in college over the vacation, I had a lovely afternoon talking to the Warden and his wife.

Graduate students generally don't have much interaction with college academic life -- undergrads usually meet with the Warden every term, but grad students are left to the academic departments to supervise -- so it was a rare and precious opportunity.
I don’t know what you’re on about. The article and its references did not provide a non-ambiguous definition. Instead, we have “highly absorptive colors”. I did not claim that Wikipedia was the arbiter of truth, but in the absence of any definition in the article it’s fair game. I am not going to go through a literature review for this, either. I already spent an order of magnitude more time to read that article’s references than you took to write… this.
TFA is Wired.com, I guess you don’t know any better yet…

Studies done by industry partners that are all backed by China… is pretty much as bad as “Volvo (100% Geely Automotive, China) petitioning for EV semis.

Do NOT take my word for it. Call your dealerships that sell EVs and ask if they can repair a single bad cell in your out of warranty battery pack. Almost no one will take that work on. It’s actually dangerous and you won’t pay the labor cost.

Best case you can buy a used pack from a roll over or other wreck and good luck to you.
https://github.com/the-virtual-brain

This looks cool!
What Are the Implications of $66/KWh Battery Packs in China?
If by hook up you mean sex then no, but if you just mean to meet new people then maybe, but people still mostly keep to themselves. Its not a super social setting.
Tokyo Digital Twin Project
no that's not the point. if you let rust automagically decide when and where to apply conversions you could easily wind up in a situation where you have more operations than you need, which increases numerical error, and also be a bitch to uncover or refactor to minimize conversions.
That’s a recurring theme on HN. The site prefers the original title, and not every blog post has a title that adequately prepares one for the contents, especially since many blogs have a recurring theme.
2024 State of the Adélie Linux Distribution
I just see a flickering image. What am I missing on iPhone?
https://senseis.xmp.net/?Ladder

(Kind of like wikipedia for go players)
There is around 1 trillion tons of oxygen in the atmosphere, if you burned all the hydrogen you would deplete all of the oxygen on earth.

Let's not.

Although realistically we only need a tiny fraction of the hydrogen.
Clickhouse's revised JSON type is still quite new (in beta currently), but I'm hopeful for it. Their first attempt fell apart if the schema changed.

[1] https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-fo...
Isn't NixOS immutable? If so, surprised it wasn't mentioned.
Taxi Drivers Have Lowest Risk of Alzheimers
This is awesome, like a new Dillo!

Thank you so much for making this project.

I'll be adding it to my test suite.
no worries, been asking myself that question too. my best guess is that i had disassociated because i couldnt bear the cognitive dissonance from accepting the fact that i was in an abusive relationship. before that incident, everything in that relationship had been going well - but looking back i see that i was slowly becoming more and more reliant on her for her network of friends and her family, which made breaking up a difficult thought to consider. anyway, the other thing going on was sleep deprivation from a severely deviated septum - i broke up with her in may 2024 after a couples counseling session, in which she a) tried to blame me for the stabbing incident, and b) admitted to kicking me awake every night over the previous 4 years when i snored.

anyway. got surgery to fix that apnea issue in july, and ive been getting back to my old self.

edit: the other jarring thing was just how successful i was at work. anyone that uses AWS lambda benefited from my projects in 2023/2024 - some of that stuff got L10 visibility inside AWS. i guess i spent all my mental energy at work, even though i was (and still am) fully remote/WFH. anyway it was tough to reconcile my failures in my personal life with my successes in work life - i was both a failure and a success.
I do, and I do have a PhD (though the bar is not that high). Not optics or entomology, but nanostructures and radiation.
Or outside of Europe/North America, for that matter.
A Samsung 990 Pro dips to the same prices. I got a 2TB one for $150 this Black Friday.

Apple is overcharging for storage. You get a lot of compute for cheap though :/
Decorating a Christmas Tree with the Help of Flaky Tests (2021)
All it would take would be for photosynthesis to be terminated, and then wait a few million years for erosion and volcanism to expose enough reduced material to soak up the atmosphere's oxygen.

What's weird is that, as far as I know, there's no feedback mechanism that's been identified that keeps the atmosphere's O2 level stable. It may have been stable since the Cambrian just because if it hadn't been, we wouldn't have evolved, an anthropic argument.
If he gave up on ideas because other people moved on, he would never have done the work that won the prize. It took someone very stubborn to continue working on neural nets back then.
See, this is why I'm glad I asked.